The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the average cost per pupil for driver education in Illinois and selected variables. The independent variables were the location of the school; average daily attendance of the school; assessed valuation per pupil in the school district; the use of the driving simulator, the…

With this publication, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission presents its third study of instructional costs in the public colleges and universities in Tennessee. The basic unit of measurement used in the commisssion's instructional cost study is the student credit hour. Professional salaries, support salaries, operating expenses, and…

This paper describes a study that calculated program costs for bilingual education programs operating in New Mexico school districts during 1974-75 and compared those costs to costs for regular educational programs. Data were collected through a survey of all 88 public school districts in New Mexico. Per-pupil program costs for the regular school…

This project originally attempted to develop data tables depicting the amount of state reimbursement received by each local Illinois school district in each special education program category. It utilized state of Illinois data tapes for the 1979-80 school year. Because it was impossible to separate reimbursements by program, the original research…

The Appalachian Education Satellite Project (AESP) was designed to apply communications satellite technology to the task of improving the quality of education in Appalachia. This report is the 10th in a 12 volume series. To justify the cost of using the satellite method, a cost model was developed. This cost model provided information on: (1) the…

Using an econometric model of four simultaneous equations for State cross-sectional data and of two equations for city cross-sections, the following determinants were estimated: (1) current spending on education, (2) the ratio of vocational to current educational expenditures, (3) the over-all enrollment rate in public schools, and (4) the…

This publication presents some of the highlights of financial information summarized from the national collections of vocational education and training (VET) data in Australia for 1998. The report includes detailed statistics for Australia, its eight states and territories, and the Australian National Training Authority. The financial information…

Discusses a study estimating the instructional, administrative, and per-pupil costs of implementing school-based support teams in special education programs in three New York City districts. Draws on the results to describe the problems of defining and estimating special education costs in urban schools, and of interpreting cost-related…

A survey of special education in 45 smaller school districts in Idaho gathered data on disabled and gifted students, district size, program costs per pupil, grade level, student hours in special education, and type of delivery system (including self-contained, resource room, work study, and homebound systems). (RW)

This compilation of tables, graphs, and charts is intended to serve as a source document for fiscal information on the community colleges in Connecticut and to provide guidance for the fiscal planning of college operations. Data covers the financial activities of state administered operating and capital accounts of all Connecticut community…

Data drawn from audited financial statements of the individual county colleges of New Jersey for fiscal years 1975 and 1976 provided the basis for this report on the county colleges' finances with regard to sources of current income, full-time-equivalent (FTE) student enrollments and costs, educational and general expenditures, and physical plant…

Utah's school districts receive equalization aid under the state's school finance program. Funds are distributed on the basis of weighted pupil units and are allocated among a number of specific programs. This document consists of tables and graphs displaying the allocation of these funds to Utah's 40 school districts during the 1982-83 school…

The purpose of this study was to determine the costs of providing instruction in French to students enrolled in French-language instructional units in areas of high concentration of Francophones. Chapter 1, which makes up most of the study, consists of separate case studies of eight educational jurisdictions that encompass a major proportion of…

This study focuses on the differences in operating costs between the traditional 180-day school schedule and the 45/15 year-round schedule in the Bethel School District of Tacoma, Washington. Two approaches were used to identify and analyze costs of the following: building administration, teachers, secretaries, clerks and aides, instructional…

As part of a multiphase evaluation of Job Corps vocational training in fiscal year 1982, the cost of Job Corps operations was analyzed. Because Job Corps is a social program that encompasses more than just vocational training, its costs exceed those of most other vocational education programs. The total Job Corps costs for operating 106 centers…